"There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag."
Windows Phone 8.1, Lumia 920, no contract here. $200 bought and paid for. Does everything I need including Internet, GPS, photos, OneDrive sync, all the business apps I need, and most of the popular apps I don't need. And calls!
Dad has the Lumia 635 which does all of the same things, just a little slower with an ok camera, for $70.
For most people, a $700 phone is a luxury.
"In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics."
I would rather have half the detail at 60 FPS. I perceive a huge difference in 30 vs 60 FPS, yet I notice very little difference in graphic quality for systems with double the graphics horsepower. For me, faster graphics hardware is producing diminishing returns in visual quality but the framerate is very noticeable.
That's a good point... I've read a lot of comments from people freaking out about being able to bring these on a plane.
I was once boarding a plane and accidentally scuffed my feet across the carpet. I brushed my hand by someone else and triggered a static arc that must have been close to 50,000 degrees. The plane was still able to take off. True story.
One thing's for certain: whether coastal cities are under 20 feet of water or up to their asses in ice 2000 years from now, there will still be politicians pointing at each other over whose fault it is.
Good insight -- I certainly would. You can deduct just about anything you can reasonably justify as a business expense. I deduct my cable bill and computer equipment as business expenses for my home office.
I'm sorry, but give me a bloody break. Parents should not be calling a University or College with concerns over a Nerf-based silly little game. It's not high school for God's sake -- the students there are adults.
Ok, so Ebert wants to get into logical discussions about games vs. films as art?
Here ya go: Much in the same way that C++ is a superset of C, video games, properly understood, are a superset of the more limited, and therefore by definition inferior, medium of film. Any game can simply be a start menu and a 2-hour cutscene (i.e., a movie). To say that games can or cannot do or be any particular thing, Ebert, doesn't show that you're prejudiced against games, only that you're totally ignorant of the possibilities of the medium.
IPSec/L2TP vpn support was broken in Vista until about February or March, accounted for a lot of calls we got at our support desk. Either a patch fixed it or our admins updated our network VPN boxes to accommodate Vista, not sure which. OWA has always worked fine (counting our blessings there).
The main problem now with VPN is the damn Norton Internet Security or McAfee Personal Firewall that comes with most new laptops. Gateway has a custom version of McAfee that, for the life of me, I cannot find a sane way to turn off (probably could if I ever actually got my hands on it).
Thankfully we have a PPTP VPN server that still does ok.
It's easy to explain that: Square sucks at game design, and Nintendo is awesome at it.
That shit from Square requiring users to do TOTALLY arbitrary things (or refrain from doing things) ruins FF games for me. Really pisses me off (can't you tell?). Nintendo always allows you to figure things out, hiding things very cleverly but always giving you a hint that it's there.
What's more, developers always wasted several months of development team talent throwing together a semi-stable E3 build of a game. I witnessed it first hand as a dev team splintered into 2/3 "keep working on the main build" and 1/3 "fork off a kludge-o-matic E3 version." The E3 build took about 4 months to whip into shape.
The thing is, most of those 60,000 attendees would see a game crash and the write "OMGzor it is teh SUX!!!" on their crappy fan site. Now, at least, most of the attendees will understand what a 40% - 80% game is like, and that the crashes and debug dumps are expected (and even desired).
Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but IMO Zelda: OOT was more revolutionary than FF3. The 3D battle system became a de-facto standard for almost every other 3D action/adventure game.
Plus, turn-based games are boring IMO. I've never finished a FF game, try as I might, I just can't stick with them to the end. I played to the World of Ruin in FF3/6 and was mildly impressed, but lost interest.
Pffft, what a crock. The Resident Evil series did more to destroy clean 3D movement in games than any other series. I can't forgive the series for that. Mario 64 and Metroid Prime both blow away RE4.
And SMB belongs in the top 10.
Ocarina of Time is right where it belongs, at #1. It's funny the reviewer says "to call it the greatest game of all time is a serious misstatement," because as we all know, video game ratings lists are Serious Business (R).
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Well I'd finally blocked the memory until you reminded me o_O
Lewis Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag."
What is a man?
What is a man? Is it being prepared to do the right thing? Whatever the cost? Isn’t that that makes a man?
Windows Phone 8.1, Lumia 920, no contract here. $200 bought and paid for. Does everything I need including Internet, GPS, photos, OneDrive sync, all the business apps I need, and most of the popular apps I don't need. And calls! Dad has the Lumia 635 which does all of the same things, just a little slower with an ok camera, for $70. For most people, a $700 phone is a luxury.
This eliminates all such worries this system is designed to prevent.
Suicide booths, finally a reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I had to read it 3 times just to make sure I wasn't losing my mind...
But of course they are.
"In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics."
Many philosophers would disagree with that.
I would rather have half the detail at 60 FPS. I perceive a huge difference in 30 vs 60 FPS, yet I notice very little difference in graphic quality for systems with double the graphics horsepower. For me, faster graphics hardware is producing diminishing returns in visual quality but the framerate is very noticeable.
My laptop has an 8600M and has some overheating issues. :/.
I was able to solve the problem quite simply though by not playing games on it anymore
That's a good point... I've read a lot of comments from people freaking out about being able to bring these on a plane.
I was once boarding a plane and accidentally scuffed my feet across the carpet. I brushed my hand by someone else and triggered a static arc that must have been close to 50,000 degrees. The plane was still able to take off. True story.
One thing's for certain: whether coastal cities are under 20 feet of water or up to their asses in ice 2000 years from now, there will still be politicians pointing at each other over whose fault it is.
Good insight -- I certainly would. You can deduct just about anything you can reasonably justify as a business expense. I deduct my cable bill and computer equipment as business expenses for my home office.
Without homebrew, where oh where can I get my steady stream of shoddy Pong and Space Invaders knock offs?
I'm sorry, but give me a bloody break. Parents should not be calling a University or College with concerns over a Nerf-based silly little game. It's not high school for God's sake -- the students there are adults.
So... that title should've read "Fact: Games > Movies". Self-owned.
Ok, so Ebert wants to get into logical discussions about games vs. films as art?
Here ya go:
Much in the same way that C++ is a superset of C, video games, properly understood, are a superset of the more limited, and therefore by definition inferior, medium of film. Any game can simply be a start menu and a 2-hour cutscene (i.e., a movie). To say that games can or cannot do or be any particular thing, Ebert, doesn't show that you're prejudiced against games, only that you're totally ignorant of the possibilities of the medium.
QED.
Big Rigs is hysterical, the B-game to end all B-games. Mod parent up, everyone needs to see these vids.
IPSec/L2TP vpn support was broken in Vista until about February or March, accounted for a lot of calls we got at our support desk. Either a patch fixed it or our admins updated our network VPN boxes to accommodate Vista, not sure which. OWA has always worked fine (counting our blessings there).
The main problem now with VPN is the damn Norton Internet Security or McAfee Personal Firewall that comes with most new laptops. Gateway has a custom version of McAfee that, for the life of me, I cannot find a sane way to turn off (probably could if I ever actually got my hands on it).
Thankfully we have a PPTP VPN server that still does ok.
He said, "pretend to be" stupid.
It's easy to explain that: Square sucks at game design, and Nintendo is awesome at it.
That shit from Square requiring users to do TOTALLY arbitrary things (or refrain from doing things) ruins FF games for me. Really pisses me off (can't you tell?). Nintendo always allows you to figure things out, hiding things very cleverly but always giving you a hint that it's there.
What's more, developers always wasted several months of development team talent throwing together a semi-stable E3 build of a game. I witnessed it first hand as a dev team splintered into 2/3 "keep working on the main build" and 1/3 "fork off a kludge-o-matic E3 version." The E3 build took about 4 months to whip into shape.
The thing is, most of those 60,000 attendees would see a game crash and the write "OMGzor it is teh SUX!!!" on their crappy fan site. Now, at least, most of the attendees will understand what a 40% - 80% game is like, and that the crashes and debug dumps are expected (and even desired).
Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but IMO Zelda: OOT was more revolutionary than FF3. The 3D battle system became a de-facto standard for almost every other 3D action/adventure game.
Plus, turn-based games are boring IMO. I've never finished a FF game, try as I might, I just can't stick with them to the end. I played to the World of Ruin in FF3/6 and was mildly impressed, but lost interest.
Pffft, what a crock. The Resident Evil series did more to destroy clean 3D movement in games than any other series. I can't forgive the series for that. Mario 64 and Metroid Prime both blow away RE4.
And SMB belongs in the top 10.
Ocarina of Time is right where it belongs, at #1. It's funny the reviewer says "to call it the greatest game of all time is a serious misstatement," because as we all know, video game ratings lists are Serious Business (R).